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until questions

dustthouart wrote in zhongwen Jun 18, 2009 23:42

Chinese! Sometimes I hate you. I can't take anything for granted with you ( Read more... )

beginner, entertainments, man is bound to conquer nature, dictionaries

Looking for Resources

tylik wrote in zhongwen Jun 07, 2009 14:55

Some background, first: I have a BA in Chinese Language and Literature, from coursework I took back in the early nineties. Then in 2004 I took a year of 古文. Didn't use it much in the meantime, though as I became more involved with my martial arts school I listened a lot and spoke a little. After I escaped the software industry it seemed to come ( Read more... )

Question about Chinese -> Japanese translation

veggieincoma wrote in zhongwen Jun 07, 2009 22:03

Hi everyone,

I have a question about Chinese to Japanese translation.

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question

blogspot blocked again?

esckey wrote in zhongwen Jun 01, 2009 21:06

... anyone have any idea when blogspot and/or blogger might be up again in the PRC?

My friends from Shenzhen, Beijing, Nanjing, etc can't access it although some in Shanghai can...

Stop! Grammar time!

amaia wrote in zhongwen May 29, 2009 21:52

So I'm about to have my first end of semester Chinese exam, and one of the tasks is to write a short passage about someone we know and recite it. We've been encouraged to make a draft and have it corrected by any native/fluent speakers for grammar mistakes, which is an allowance I intend to take full advantage of :D

Anyway, apologies for the boring ( Read more... )

meaning

jukixx wrote in zhongwen Apr 27, 2009 22:58

Someone used "打茄伦" to explain something to me, but I'm not sure what that means..
Can anyone explain please?

...and we're back.

katie_ah wrote in zhongwen Apr 21, 2009 19:55

Hey folks-

Sorry about the hacking and subsequent temporary suspension of zhongwen. My LJ was hacked by some lovely Russian folks because of some stupid LJ loophole involving old hotmail e-mail addresses.

Thanks for all the warnings (even though they weren't posted!) and for sticking around. We now return to our regularly scheduled program.

-Katie/陆爽

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aitakute wrote in zhongwen Apr 22, 2009 09:55

Hi,

I'm posting here to share a link I found: Chinese Text Project; think of it as something akin to the Gutenberg Project, except there's almost all the main Chinese classics (mostly philosophy, history, military texts, science and maths, folklore, medicine, etc). The useful thing is that it has the translated version alongside in English to ( Read more... )

Forvo: pronunciations in 209 languages

qaexl wrote in zhongwen Mar 23, 2009 22:43

http://forvo.com/languages/zh/

Currently in their database for Chinese:

Pronounced words: 1,118
Pending pronunciation words: 28,768

-Qaexl

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beginnersmind wrote in zhongwen Mar 20, 2009 09:37

Anyone have any good Mandarin teaching resource links to share?
I'm looking for curriculum ideas for my middle school and highschool classes.
Thanks!